15.6. Granite

With noise, it's also easy just to try and make stuff up. In this example, I wanted to simulate a grayish rocky material with small black specks. To generate a relatively high-frequency noise texture, I used only the fourth component (the highest frequency one). I scaled it by an arbitrary amount to provide an appropriate intensity level and then used this value for each of the red, green, and blue components. The shader in Listing 15.7 generates an appearance similar to granite, as shown in Color Plate 24.

Listing 15.7. Granite fragment shader

varying float LightIntensity; varying vec3 MCposition; uniform sampler3D Noise; uniform float NoiseScale; void main() { vec4 noisevec = texture3D(Noise, NoiseScale * MCposition); float intensity = min(1.0, noisevec[3] * 18.0); vec3 color = vec3(intensity * LightIntensity); gl_FragColor = vec4(color, 1.0); }